Jerusalem post, the floods of April 2018

TEN YOUTH DEAD IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL FLASH FLOODS

“We were unable to escape the current and were swept away by the river,” survivors said.

BY TAMARA ZIEVE

APRIL 26, 2018 18:45

Ten youths, nine girls and a boy from a pre-military academy, were killed after they were carried off by a surge in the Tzafit stream west of the southern part of the Dead Sea amid intense storms that hit the South of Israel on Thursday.